http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/09/24/1424516/-Pope-Francis-challenges-Congress-on-inequality-immigration-poverty-and-the-environment?detail=email
For too many years, the Catholic teachings that have gotten the most attention in the United States have been limited to sex and related topics. The broader sweep of Catholic teaching has continued to include much more, such as the rights of workers and opposition to the death penalty, but it's been easy for Republicans to ignore while loudly calling out the issues on which they agreed with the church. Pope Francis has changed that balance, to the discomfort of Republicans, and Thursday he took his message straight to Congress.
Republicans still got lines they liked—or thought they did—such as "The Golden Rule also reminds us of our responsibility to protect and defend human life at every stage of its development." But of course they weren't quite so enthusiastic about the "at every stage" part; Francis continued:
This conviction has led me, from the beginning of my ministry, to advocate at different levels for the global abolition of the death penalty. I am convinced that this way is the best, since every life is sacred, every human person is endowed with an inalienable dignity, and society can only benefit from the rehabilitation of those convicted of crimes.
That wasn't the only part of the speech bound to give congressional Republicans heartburn, in the politest and most elegant way possible. On inequality and the economy:
If politics must truly be at the service of the human person, it follows that it cannot be a slave to the economy and finance. Politics is, instead, an expression of our compelling need to live as one, in order to build as one the greatest common good: that of a community which sacrifices particular interests in order to share, in justice and peace, its goods, its interests, its social life. I do not underestimate the difficulty that this involves, but I encourage you in this effort.
please read the rest in the article btw this is the real reason republicans object to the Pope he is calling them out on their contrary attitudes on all things having to do with Americans in favor of rich and deregulated laws that pollute and poison and have the capacity to kill all for a few dollars more.
climate change i still hold it's about the same thing admitting it opens the flood gates of regulation and a few dollars less.
they mislead misinform us we need to recognize the difference in motivation and manipulation their game plan the latter
